The Finance Department, Chandigarh, has approved a budget of Rs 5 crore to ensure that kids aged between six months to six years, pregnant and lactating mothers can be provided additional nutritional food, including eggs, banana and milk in 450 anganwadi centres.
The move is aimed at curbing malnutrition by offering additional nutrition over and above the Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) provided to all the beneficiaries in the anganwadis.